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'''Fascism''' is a political ideology, practice and religion that seeks national unity through patriotism, collectivism and strong suppression or extermination of any [[liberalism]] and [[opposition]].
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Fascism generally sees the individual as subservient to the group; those who do not accept this are considered as enemies;
the dictatorship of the strongly organized group is justified.
Fascism usually implies the existence of a at least one strong leader, [[fuhrer]]; the canonical texts by the leader are considered as irrefutable true.
In such a way, fascism substitutes all the historical concepts of [[morality]] with submission to the interests of the patriotic group, expressed by the leader.
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'''Fascism''' is a political ideology of the far right that seeks national unity through patriotism, collectivism and opposition to [[liberalism]]. Fascism generally sees the individual as subservient to the group. The prototypical fascist state is usually seen as the [[Italy]] of [[Benito Mussolini]], and fascism is also thought of as an important undercurrent in [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] [[Germany]] under [[National Socialism]].
The main assumption of the fascistic religion is that the superiority gives namely this group the moral right to dominate over all other people and use all methods necessary to provide such domination: propaganda of xenophobia, terror, racket, taking hostages, the war of extermination, cruelty. These methods, both theory and practice were described by [[Vladimir Lenin]] at the beginning of century XX
<ref name="lenin1906"> [http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1906/aug/29.htm V.I.Lenin. Lessons of the Moscow Uprising. (1906)]</ref>
<ref name="lenin1918"> [http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/DD18.html V.I.Lenin. Democracy and dictatorship.(1918)] V.I.Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1966, v.28, p.368-372</ref>.
(See the links for more Russian references.)


Fascism as a movement tends to be a [[populism|populist]] movement, which exists in a symbiotic relationship with the party - in [[Germany]], this included the [[Hitler Youth]] and frequent marches. Fascism tends to play to a feeling of crisis and group victimhood (usually racial and nationalistic), blaming another group for social problems.
In years 1920-1930ths, fascism spread to [[Germany]] (and then to [[Italy]]), and got its future development. The canonic text on the German fascism, called also [[hitlerism]] (or National Socialism), is the book by [[Adolf Hitler]] entitled ''Mein Kampf'' published in 1925-1926 years <ref name="MeinKampf"> [http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/ A.Hitler. ''Mein Kampf''] (1925-1926)</ref>. This book is considered as an equivalent of the [[Bible]] for hitlerism
<ref name="jimwalker"> [http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm Jim Walker. Hitler's religious beliefs and fanaticism]</ref>.
The main enemy is declared to be [[jews]], either by the [[ethnicity]] or by their [[Judaism|religion]]. For this reason, hitlerism is also called [[Nazism]]. The racial orientation makes the main difference between [[hitlerism]] and [[stalinism]] (named after [[Joseph Stalin]], leader of the USSR), where the dominant group is called [[proletariat]] and the meaning of "main enemy" varies from epoch to epoch; first, it refers to the [[bourgeoisie]], then, to [[kulak]]s (transliteration from [[Russian]] кулак, which means an independent [[farmer]]), then, after extermination of farmers, becomes some kind of abstract [[enemy of the people]] (Literal translation of the Russian враг народа), a term, which can be applied to anybody: that time, every citizen of the USSR or foreigner could be qualified as "enemy of the people" (justifying the [[repression]]). This gave the almost permanent source of [[slave]]s for the [[concentration camp]]s, created in the USSR in 1918; this recourse was limited only by the population of the USSR, making stalinism stronger than hitlerism, at least during few generations.<br>
In many other aspects, hitlerism and stalinism are very close. Their cooperation covered the suppression of the enemies inside the countries (Germany, USSR), the coordinated invasion to other countries
<ref name="MolotovRibbentrop"> [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1939pact.html The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact], 1939</ref>,
the export of grain from starving Russia to more prosper Germany and the ideological support
<ref name="Molotov1940speech"> [http://everything2.com/title/Molotov%2527s+speech+after+Finnish+Winter+War V.M.MOLOTOV. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT]. March 29, 1940</ref>.
Such a cooperation lasted until year 1941; then the it converted to war. Since that time, the [[soviet propaganda]] interprets the National Socialism as essence of fascism.


Fascism and fascist are also often used as a pejorative name for people. This was lucidly described by [[George Orwell]] in ''What is Fascism?'', where he described how it was used to describe a huge swathe of political ideologies and positions and is thus it has been rendered fairly meaningless.
The ideas of [[hitlerism]] and [[stalinism]] are generalized in the book [[The doctrine of fascism]] (La dottrina del fascismo)
<ref name="doctrine">[http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm Benito Mussolini. The doctrine of fascism] (1933)</ref>, published by the Italian leader [[Benito Mussolini]] in 1933. In that book the ideas of fascism are formulated in the abstract form, that can be applied to any country and any epoch; the only need is to choose the appropriate strong majority as the dominant elite, representing the national interests, and to declare some minorities as enemies (id est, victims). This idea generalizes the Russian concept of [[bolshevik]]s (transliteration from Russian большевик). Neither stalinists, not hitlerists use the term 'fascism' with respect to themselves. German hitlerists used word [[Nazi]], while the stalinists call themselves [[bolshevik]]s of [[communist]]s; some of them recognize themselves as stalinists (but do not recognize stalinism as kind of fascism).
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==Bibliography==
After the [[World War II]] (1938-1945), the hitlerism was condemned and punished; then fascism is not welcomed in civilized countries. In some countries, the book ''Mein Kampf'' is banned
*  Blamires, Cyprian. ''World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia'' (2 vol. 2006)
<ref name="ban">
* De Grand, Alexander. ''Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The Fascist "Style" of Rule,'' (1995),
[http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Bans_Mein_Kampf/1994662.html Russia Bans 'Mein Kampf']. [Radio Liberty], March 26, 2010.</ref>
* Eatwell, Roger. ''Fascism. A History,'' (1995)
The ban give the [[neo-fascist]]s
* Griffin, Roger. ''The Nature of Fascism,'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Fascism-Roger-Griffin/dp/0415096618/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208116351&sr=1-24 excerpt and text search]
<ref name="ZbigniewBrzezinski2004">[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/7455.html Zbigniew Brzezinski. Moscow's Mussolini] (How Putin Is Creating a Fascist State). Sept. 20, 2004</ref>
* Kershaw, Ian. ''The Nazi Dictatorship. Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation,'' (3rd edn, 1993)
<ref name="GavinKnight2007">[http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/07/putin-russia-nashi-soviet Gavin Knight. The alarming spread of fascism in Putin's Russia], 24 July 2007</ref>
* Knox, MacGregor. ''Common Destiny. Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany,'' (2000)
more opportunities: they recycle the fascistic ideas and re-use them without to cite the sources. The groups, united with the collective [[narcissism]], pretend to be "anti-fascists", while they never had red the classic fascists documents and can neither classify, nor even identify the phenomena of fascism in century 21.
* Laqueur, Walter, ed. ''Fascism. A Reader's Guide: Analyses, Interpretations, Bibliography,'' (1979)
<ref name="AnselmWaldermann2007">
* Morgan, Philip. ''Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945.'' (2002) [http://www.questia.com/read/108077313?title=Fascism%20in%20Europe%2c%201919-1945 online edition]
[http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,514891,00.html Anselm Waldermann. The Nashi Movement.
* Payne, Stanley. ''A History of Fascism, 1914-1945,'' (1995)
The [[New Statesman]], 2007 Nov. 2</ref>
* Paxton, Robert O. ''The Anatomy of Fascism'' (2005)


===Primary sources===
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The prototypical fascist state is usually seen as the [[Italy]] of [[Benito Mussolini]], and fascism is also thought of as an important undercurrent in [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] [[Germany]] under National Socialism.


==See also==
Fascism as a movement tends to be a [[populism|populist]] movement, which exists in a symbiotic relationship with the party - in [[Germany]], this included the [[Hitler Youth]] and frequent marches. Fascism tends to play to a feeling of crisis and group victimhood (usually racial and nationalistic), blaming another group for social problems.
* [[National Socialism]]
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==Online resources==


====notes====
Words ''fascism'' and ''fascist'' are also often used as a pejorative name for people. This was lucidly described by George Orwell in ''What is Fascism?''<ref>{{cite web|date=24 March 1944|title=As I Please: 'What is Fascism?'|url=http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease19440324.html|work=The Tribune|publisher=Telelib|accessdate=12 April 2014}}</ref><ref>Also see Orwell's [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm Politics and the English Language] which makes similar reference to the pejorative use of 'fascism'.</ref>, where he described how it was used to describe a huge swathe of political ideologies and positions and is thus it has been rendered fairly meaningless.
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In particular, the [[nashism|nashists]] by themselves use the term 'fascism' with respect to any ideology, different from [[nashism]].


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==Bibliography==
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*Blamires, Cyprian. ''World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia'' (2 vol. 2006)
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*De Grand, Alexander. ''Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The Fascist "Style" of Rule,'' (1995),
*Eatwell, Roger. ''Fascism. A History,'' (1995)
*Griffin, Roger. ''The Nature of Fascism,'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Fascism-Roger-Griffin/dp/0415096618/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208116351&sr=1-24 excerpt and text search]
*Kershaw, Ian. ''The Nazi Dictatorship. Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation,'' (3rd edn, 1993)
*Knox, MacGregor. ''Common Destiny. Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany,'' (2000)
*Laqueur, Walter, ed. ''Fascism. A Reader's Guide: Analyses, Interpretations, Bibliography,'' (1979)
*Morgan, Philip. ''Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945.'' (2002) [http://www.questia.com/read/108077313?title=Fascism%20in%20Europe%2c%201919-1945 online edition]
*Payne, Stanley. ''A History of Fascism, 1914-1945,'' (1995)
*Paxton, Robert O. ''The Anatomy of Fascism'' (2005)
===Primary sources===
*Griffin, Roger, ed. ''Fascism,'' (1995) [http://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Oxford-Readers-Roger-Griffin/dp/0192892495/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208116272&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
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==See also==
==See also==
==Online resources==
*National Socialism
 
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Fascism is a political ideology, practice and religion that seeks national unity through patriotism, collectivism and strong suppression or extermination of any liberalism and opposition. Fascism generally sees the individual as subservient to the group; those who do not accept this are considered as enemies; the dictatorship of the strongly organized group is justified. Fascism usually implies the existence of a at least one strong leader, fuhrer; the canonical texts by the leader are considered as irrefutable true. In such a way, fascism substitutes all the historical concepts of morality with submission to the interests of the patriotic group, expressed by the leader.

The main assumption of the fascistic religion is that the superiority gives namely this group the moral right to dominate over all other people and use all methods necessary to provide such domination: propaganda of xenophobia, terror, racket, taking hostages, the war of extermination, cruelty. These methods, both theory and practice were described by Vladimir Lenin at the beginning of century XX [1] [2]. (See the links for more Russian references.)

In years 1920-1930ths, fascism spread to Germany (and then to Italy), and got its future development. The canonic text on the German fascism, called also hitlerism (or National Socialism), is the book by Adolf Hitler entitled Mein Kampf published in 1925-1926 years [3]. This book is considered as an equivalent of the Bible for hitlerism [4]. The main enemy is declared to be jews, either by the ethnicity or by their religion. For this reason, hitlerism is also called Nazism. The racial orientation makes the main difference between hitlerism and stalinism (named after Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR), where the dominant group is called proletariat and the meaning of "main enemy" varies from epoch to epoch; first, it refers to the bourgeoisie, then, to kulaks (transliteration from Russian кулак, which means an independent farmer), then, after extermination of farmers, becomes some kind of abstract enemy of the people (Literal translation of the Russian враг народа), a term, which can be applied to anybody: that time, every citizen of the USSR or foreigner could be qualified as "enemy of the people" (justifying the repression). This gave the almost permanent source of slaves for the concentration camps, created in the USSR in 1918; this recourse was limited only by the population of the USSR, making stalinism stronger than hitlerism, at least during few generations.
In many other aspects, hitlerism and stalinism are very close. Their cooperation covered the suppression of the enemies inside the countries (Germany, USSR), the coordinated invasion to other countries [5], the export of grain from starving Russia to more prosper Germany and the ideological support [6]. Such a cooperation lasted until year 1941; then the it converted to war. Since that time, the soviet propaganda interprets the National Socialism as essence of fascism.

The ideas of hitlerism and stalinism are generalized in the book The doctrine of fascism (La dottrina del fascismo) [7], published by the Italian leader Benito Mussolini in 1933. In that book the ideas of fascism are formulated in the abstract form, that can be applied to any country and any epoch; the only need is to choose the appropriate strong majority as the dominant elite, representing the national interests, and to declare some minorities as enemies (id est, victims). This idea generalizes the Russian concept of bolsheviks (transliteration from Russian большевик). Neither stalinists, not hitlerists use the term 'fascism' with respect to themselves. German hitlerists used word Nazi, while the stalinists call themselves bolsheviks of communists; some of them recognize themselves as stalinists (but do not recognize stalinism as kind of fascism).

After the World War II (1938-1945), the hitlerism was condemned and punished; then fascism is not welcomed in civilized countries. In some countries, the book Mein Kampf is banned [8] The ban give the neo-fascists [9] [10] more opportunities: they recycle the fascistic ideas and re-use them without to cite the sources. The groups, united with the collective narcissism, pretend to be "anti-fascists", while they never had red the classic fascists documents and can neither classify, nor even identify the phenomena of fascism in century 21. [11]


Words fascism and fascist are also often used as a pejorative name for people. This was lucidly described by George Orwell in What is Fascism?[12][13], where he described how it was used to describe a huge swathe of political ideologies and positions and is thus it has been rendered fairly meaningless. In particular, the nashists by themselves use the term 'fascism' with respect to any ideology, different from nashism.


See also

  • National Socialism

References

  1. V.I.Lenin. Lessons of the Moscow Uprising. (1906)
  2. V.I.Lenin. Democracy and dictatorship.(1918) V.I.Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1966, v.28, p.368-372
  3. A.Hitler. Mein Kampf (1925-1926)
  4. Jim Walker. Hitler's religious beliefs and fanaticism
  5. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939
  6. V.M.MOLOTOV. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. March 29, 1940
  7. Benito Mussolini. The doctrine of fascism (1933)
  8. Russia Bans 'Mein Kampf'. [Radio Liberty], March 26, 2010.
  9. Zbigniew Brzezinski. Moscow's Mussolini (How Putin Is Creating a Fascist State). Sept. 20, 2004
  10. Gavin Knight. The alarming spread of fascism in Putin's Russia, 24 July 2007
  11. [http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,514891,00.html Anselm Waldermann. The Nashi Movement. The New Statesman, 2007 Nov. 2
  12. As I Please: 'What is Fascism?'. The Tribune. Telelib (24 March 1944). Retrieved on 12 April 2014.
  13. Also see Orwell's Politics and the English Language which makes similar reference to the pejorative use of 'fascism'.